Flower holder



. Oct. 9 1923. 1,469,823

W. F. SCHMEISKE FLOWER HOLDER Filed NOV. 15 1922 INVENTOR Wm, 5 g sQ/W I BY ATTORNEY I Patented Get. 9, I

ILLIAM F. SGHMEISKE, or BINGI-IA'M'ION, NEW YORK.

FLOWER HOLDER;

' A pplicati on filed November 15, 1922. Serial No. 601,142.

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known [that I, WILLIAM F. ScHMEisKE, a citizen of the United'States,

presiding at Binghamton.- in the county of Broome and State of New York, have invented. certain new and usefulImprovements' object to provide a novel device of the character described, easily manufactured and which will permit of the secure holding of he flower stem in. vertical position and readily grasping the stem and permitting easy removal thereof. One of the features of the invention is theprovisio-n of a flower holder having spring j awe. and a recess herein for clamping the flower stems, and ear projections for grasping between the fingers for readily opening the jaws, all of which parts being constructed from a single length of spring steel wire.

With these and other objects in view my invention consists in the following novel features of construction and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described and pointed out in the claim, refer: ence being had to the accompanying drawings, in which: i

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of my device with the jaws closed. Y

Fig. 2 is a perspective View of my device with the jaws open. r Fig. 3 is aperspective viewof my device. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a modified form'ofniy device? I Fi g. 5 is a n'iodi'fied form of my device.

The same reference characters denote like,

parts in each of the several figures of the drawings. Referring to the drawings .A, designates a single length of wlre which-1s shaped, bent or constructed. into the parallel jaw members 2.2, each having therein a curved recess 3.3. The wire material after forming the jaw Inembers'Z-Q projects into the bent lever 'members .44 and is again members 2.2 are drawntogethe'r by the same pressed into the surface andthe flower deco- "tjirs Patent i QS H length offsp i f bent into a coiled'spring formation 5 and. in v which formation the lever members44are held apart by the two inwardly projecting vertical stems or pin shanks 6.6, j-which stems are adapted to pierce for penetrate. the moss or other structural base of the wreath or.

other ornamental formation to be constructed. The projecting stems or pin shanks 6.6 are so bent in position as to rest between the lever" members 44; the bent lever members 4.4 projecting backfrom the jaW members 2.2 are held apart in openformationland in resilient pressure against the stems 6.6, while the curved ends of the jaw" pressure of the coiled 'sprin'g'S in closed for mation,- when in normal position, by the spring-pressure from 5. The levers 4.4 are designed to be engaged bythe, thumb. and" forefinger so that the jaws 2.2may be opened in order to insert the flower stem therein orrelease the flower stem therefrom. The j aws" 2.2 are provided with indentations to hold I 1 the stem of the flower. The stems 6.6 while shown at some length 'in'. the drawing are designed to be out to anydesired length, ac-

cording to the depth ofthesurface that they are to penetrate, whethermoss or other Sub? surfaces, such as are. commonly used floral-wreaths or funeral decorations.

In operation When a flower is cut or sev-.. eral flowers, while holding my device by the stems 6.6 in'one hand, by thepressure of the thumb and finger with the-other, the

flower or flowers inserted and then by releas-I V I jaws 2.2 are opened and the stems'ofthe;

ing the levers,4.4 and the'coiled spring5, the flowers are firmly held in a vertical position', until released. ,The stems 6.6 are then.

ration is thus held in secure position as long as 'deslred. Thus. by the use of'this snnple for decorative purposes.

I In combinatioma single steel wire formed about nidway 111a coiled V or Having thusfdescrib'edmy invention what I claim as new and. for'which I desire Let:

then bent diagonally backward and upward for aispa ce, then bent forwardhorizontally on 'a, line with the extension from the j coiled spring, then bent vertically downward, passing between the parallel extension sections extending from the coiled spring,

and holding spaced apart resilient pressure, the sections extending" horizontally 1 from the coiled spring, all for the. purposes specified.

In testimony whereof I hate afliXed lny signature.

WILLIAM F. soi-iMEIsKE. 

